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#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups

By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.

"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.

"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"

apnews.com/article/columbia-un
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism

Pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment is seen at the Columbia University, April 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
AP News · Trump intervention at Columbia alarms defenders of academic freedomBy Collin Binkley

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Dastavezi | The Audio-Visual South Asia

"Dastavezi the Audio-Visual South Asia is an international peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal, which seeks to reposition the audio-visual as a central mode of knowing and thinking about South Asia."

Deadline: 15/03/2023

networks.h-net.org/node/15531/

#VisualAnthropology, #Anthropology, #ArtHistory, #VisualStudies, #Film, #FilmHistory, #SouthAsianStudies

networks.h-net.orgDastavezi | The Audio-Visual South Asia [Journal] | H-Travel | H-Net

If you are in Washington D.C. this coming week, please join this series of free and public events, titled 'Water, Climate, Culture's at Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, accompanying two exhibitions: 'A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur' and 'Unstill Waters: Contemporary Photography from India'.

Dec 9 & 10 at the museum's Meyer Auditorium

asia.si.edu/events-overview/ta

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